Sedgwick, Catharine Maria

Ms., 1789-1867. A once famous novelist whose name was for a time the foremost among those of American literary women. Her work has very real excellence, but its merits were hardly of a quality to preserve it, and it is now superseded by the writings of others who have cultivated the same field with even more skill. Hope Leslie; Redwood; The New England Tale; The Traveller; Clarence; Le Bo u; The Linwoods; Married or Single (1857), include her novels. Other works for older readers are, Letters from Abroad; Historical Sketches of the Old Painters. Her juvenile moral tales, of which Live and Let Live; Poor Rich Man and Rich Poor Man; Means and Ends; Morals and Manners, are good examples, are as entertaining as they were popular. For a half century she was principal of a school for girls in Stock bridge, Ma achusetts, her native town. See Life and Letters, 1871. Har.